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Kanye in the house, Snoop's Bored Ape restaurant, Department of Justice sues Nate 👩🏻‍⚖️

Jun 06, 2022

Dear NFTimer,

How have you been? Is this bear market treating you right? I feel a bit paralyzed right now, I want to get more ETH and take advantage of lower NFT prices, but at the same time, we really don’t know what the macro situation will look like and how that will continue to affect the crypto market.

At least we have goblins. AAAAUGGGGHHHHUUAGGA

I had so much fun in these Twitter Spaces, you have no idea. If you haven’t joined a Spaces with goblin presence, please do so.

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🎨 NFTs

San Francisco is getting its first NFT restaurant and membership-based club on top of the rooftop of Salesforce Transit Center. It will be a high-end Japanese restaurant called SHŌ.
Another name opening a restaurant is Snoop Dogg! Snoop Dogg and Food Fighters Universe (names behind the Bored & Hungry burger restaurant) are opening Dr. Bombay’s Sweet Exploration, a dessert restaurant in LA, based on Snoop’s Bored Ape.
Warner Bros. is working on an NFT project for the Looney Tunes brand.
Crypto Coven is minting its Coven Cats expansion collection. The art is really not my cup of tea but here you go.
Goblintown continues to be the winner of the bear market due to the perfect narrative it caught during bear market, with the collection floor price reaching almost 9 ETH last week.
Snoop Dogg’s son Champ Medici is working on doing a drop on Cardano.
Book your hotel room as NFTs. A hotel in the Dominican Republic is creating NFTs associated with hotel rooms and calling them Room-Night Tokens (RNT). Guests can buy RNTs from Pinktada website to reserve rooms in the Caribbean, Mexico, San Francisco, and Hawaii.
Bored Ape Discord got hacked again, causing 200 ETH worth of NFTs to be stolen. One of the founders isn’t taking it anymore.

GordonGoner.eth @GordonGoner

Discord isn’t working for web3 communities. We need a better platform that puts security first.

Claire Silver launched Guild for the Arts.
Jim Carrey bought his first NFT on SuperRare.
Bryan Brinkman signed with CAA.
Avastars are going 3D.

🔮 Metaverse News

BYOVerse is being built on Unreal Engine.
Decentraland is holding Pride events during the month of June.
The Sandbox distributed 5 million $mSAND tokens to LAND holders.
Meta is doubling down on its metaverse initiative by changing the company’s stock ticker from FB to META.
There is an ApeCoin proposal asking if the ecosystem should stay on Ethereum. So far, the community is saying yes.

🎵 Music

Mariah Carey enters the NFT space, where holders will get a chance to meet the queen of Christmas herself.
Binance is sponsoring The Weeknd’s upcoming world tour, with the partnership featuring various NFT initiatives.

👾 NFT Games

The video game studio by Dr. Disrespect, Midnight Society, announced a collaboration with Polygon Studios to build a trading platform for in-game items.

🎥 Movies

The Lokals is the first NFT collection that will fully live in an animated film.

⚽️ Sports

Co-founded by Ice Cube, the BIG3 pro basketball league has done a mint and is offering team ownership stakes via NFTs. They will have a second mint on June 10, with rebranded NFTs and offering additional benefits to owners.

🔥 What else is hot?

Gem rolled out a Smart Collection Search feature.
Hyype added ENS domains support.
Crypto exchange Gemini laid off 10% of its staff in preparation for crypto winter.
Japan’s Parliament has passed a new law that creates a regulatory framework for stablecoins, defining them as digital money, and protecting crypto investors.
The New York State Senate approved a bill that would create a 2-year moratorium on Bitcoin mining. Governor Hochul has 10 days to choose her side and either sign or veto it.
Binance Labs announced a $500 million Web3 investment fund.
Kanye West’s Mascotte Holdings filed 17 trademark applications mentioning NFTs and metaverse experiences around the his brand.
Solana blockchain was down for 4 hours on June 1st.

Sam Stratten 🇦🇺 @SamStratten

@Solana_INC

Department of Justice charged Nate Chastain, the former OpenSea executive who used insider information to buy and sell NFTs, for using confidential business information, insider trading scheme, wire fraud, and money laundering.

Steven @Dogetoshi

Crypto VCs right now.

The ‘LinkedIn for DAOs,’ Dework announced raising $5 million in its seed round.
Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra auctioned off their Eurovision trophy for 500 ETH to raise money for the war efforts.
46,000 people have lost over a combined $1 billion in crypto-related scams since the beginning of 2021, according to the Federal Trade Commission, with 70% of stolen crypto being Bitcoin.
Elon and Dogecoin creator Palmer exchanged some words on Twitter this week:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@PinballReed @crikey_news @ummjackson @cameronwilson My kids wrote better code when they were 12 than the nonsense script Jackson sent me. Like I said, if it’s so great, he should share it with the world and make everyone’s experience with Twitter better. If he does, you will see what I mean. Jackson Palmer is a tool.

📖 Reading List

“The Purpose of Guilds” by Samantha Marin
“Illegible Enterprises: DAOs, Unwrapped” by Mike Wawszczak
“Summer 2022: NFT Winter?” by Lisa Xu
“NFTs and the Risk of Perpetual Colonialism” by Luke Hespanhol
“Designing Token Economies” by Packy McCormick
“Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z on Reinventing the Internet”

🧵 Threads

Ron | Looking for internship @0xnyew

Tokenomics. Crypto twitter throws this word around a lot but never explains it except "DYOR". What's the secret that OGs and projects don’t want you to know? And wish you'd never find out as a newbie? Here’s a simple guide to tokenomics for beginners.

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

A big difference between the "new idealistic movement" scene 10-15 years ago vs today is that back then it felt possible to be on all the good-guy teams at the same time. Today, much more adversarial thinking and conflict. I've been trying to understand.. where to from here?

pothu @cryptoPothu

This bear market has hit all of us hard. People have lost money, jobs, and more. I’ve been saying this for a while, but bear markets are huge opportunities. They’re the perfect time to build and accumulate. Here’s what I’m going to do during the bear market. A thread🧵

korpi @korpi87

"ETH will dump hard when >12M staked ETH get unlocked after the Merge." I've noticed some people consider the Merge as a negative price catalyst due to a supposed huge ETH unlock. This is wrong. Here is what they miss about the $ETH unlock. 🧵👇

ZachXBT @zachxbt

1/ Let’s breakdown the $6.3m NFT rug Animoon, a project that has constantly screwed over its holders since day 1.

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